State Rep. Ellen Troxclair cited mental health issues related to social media as her motivation for filing the bill.

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I am a teacher who has a flip phone, so I do not spend much time on my phone other than to talk; however, I am totally against banning phones in school. The issue of using or not using a phone in ...

A plan to ban public school students in New York from using their cellphones during the school day that’s being championed by ...

A New York lawmaker is calling on the state to repeal the HALT Act, a controversial law at the center of the recent prison ...

In their largely symbolic counterproposals to Hochul’s budget released this week, the state Assembly and Senate rejected the ...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she supports a new plan from Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban cell phones, bell-to-bell in schools.

A plan to ban public school students in New York from using their cellphones during the school day that's being championed by the governor is hitting some turbulence from her fellow Democrats in ...

Western New York students had a chance to weigh in on a proposed statewide “bell to bell” cellphone ban in schools.

Spending on the public schools now accounts for more than a third of New York City’s budget — yet the woman nominally in ...

The Department of Education’s mammoth $41.2 billion budget plan for next year is a whopping third of the entire city’s — but ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. ( NEWS10) — Mohonasen Central School District implemented its new cell phone policy at the beginning of the school year. They opted to not have a bell-to-bell ban, instead ...